"Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?" Ezekiel 18:23.
🗣It is ungodly to wish evil to the wicked even when they persist in wrong doing. God delights in their conversion and restoration and we are called to do likewise. Spend time today to pray for people who are far away from God. This surely gladens the heart of our maker 🙇♀Jesus meek and humble of heart, make my heart like yours. Amen
Friday, March 15, 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Fr Patrick Etuk, MSP - Homily Thursday, March 14, 2019
"For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Mt.7:8
🗣Nothing should ever impede us from praying. Do you lack faith? How will you have faith if you don't pray often? In talking to God and listening to him often our faith grows stronger. Are you living in grave sin? How will you overcome if don't cry out to God for mercy and help often? Pray constantly. Be not discouraged no matter what you are facing. He will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory. Amen. Shalom.
🗣Nothing should ever impede us from praying. Do you lack faith? How will you have faith if you don't pray often? In talking to God and listening to him often our faith grows stronger. Are you living in grave sin? How will you overcome if don't cry out to God for mercy and help often? Pray constantly. Be not discouraged no matter what you are facing. He will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory. Amen. Shalom.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Fr Patrick Etuk, MSP - Homily wednesday, March 13, 2019
"When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out." (Jonah 3: 10).
🗣Every sincere effort to repent and turn from evil will not go unnoticed and unrewarded by God. His anger lasts for a moment but his favor all through life. No matter what our past have been, when we make sincere efforts to repent God remembers our sins no more. This is the good news of our faith. Shalom .
🙇♀Give me again the joy of your help. With a Spirit of fervor sustain me O God. Amen.
🗣Every sincere effort to repent and turn from evil will not go unnoticed and unrewarded by God. His anger lasts for a moment but his favor all through life. No matter what our past have been, when we make sincere efforts to repent God remembers our sins no more. This is the good news of our faith. Shalom .
🙇♀Give me again the joy of your help. With a Spirit of fervor sustain me O God. Amen.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Fr Patrick Etuk, MSP - Homily Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him." (Matthew 6: 8).
In the prayer that Jesus thought us we have one of the most comforting and reassuring scriptures. It tells us that the God we pray to is not a task master but a loving father, our daddy. He is ever willing to hear us. He is more than able to do what our hearts truly yearns for.
He has the means to satisfy every desire of our heart. Prayer makes us willing and able to do his will. He answers us not because of who we are but because of who He is, a compassionate God.
This should make us eager and confident to come into his presence. The psamist says. "But I through the greatness of your love have access to your house... " Ps. 5:7
🙇♀Jesus, I trust in you. Amen.
In the prayer that Jesus thought us we have one of the most comforting and reassuring scriptures. It tells us that the God we pray to is not a task master but a loving father, our daddy. He is ever willing to hear us. He is more than able to do what our hearts truly yearns for.
He has the means to satisfy every desire of our heart. Prayer makes us willing and able to do his will. He answers us not because of who we are but because of who He is, a compassionate God.
This should make us eager and confident to come into his presence. The psamist says. "But I through the greatness of your love have access to your house... " Ps. 5:7
🙇♀Jesus, I trust in you. Amen.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Fr Patrick Etuk, MSP - Homily Saturday, March 9, 2019
"Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post.
He said to him, "Follow me."
And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him."
Lk 5:27ff
🗣Mathew was a public sinner, hated by many and often treated as an outcast, a sold out. Yet the ill treatment he received from people hardened his heart the more. However, just one tender loving gaze from Jesus made a huge difference in his life. It is only true love that can melt hardened hearts. It is the warmth of God's Love that can set our hearts on fire for his good purpose, regardless of what our past have been. Jesus loves you unconditionally as he loved Mathew the public sinner. When we open our hearts to his love, he set us on fire for his kingdom transforming us radically from the inside. Drink of that love this morning. Feel his loving gaze on you. It is the medicine you desperately need for your soul.
🙇♀Jesus I trust in you. I am delivered, I am set free. Your goodness follows me. Your love accompanies and accomplishes great things in me. I can love because I am loved unconditionally. Amen.
He said to him, "Follow me."
And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him."
Lk 5:27ff
🗣Mathew was a public sinner, hated by many and often treated as an outcast, a sold out. Yet the ill treatment he received from people hardened his heart the more. However, just one tender loving gaze from Jesus made a huge difference in his life. It is only true love that can melt hardened hearts. It is the warmth of God's Love that can set our hearts on fire for his good purpose, regardless of what our past have been. Jesus loves you unconditionally as he loved Mathew the public sinner. When we open our hearts to his love, he set us on fire for his kingdom transforming us radically from the inside. Drink of that love this morning. Feel his loving gaze on you. It is the medicine you desperately need for your soul.
🙇♀Jesus I trust in you. I am delivered, I am set free. Your goodness follows me. Your love accompanies and accomplishes great things in me. I can love because I am loved unconditionally. Amen.
Friday, March 8, 2019
Fr Patrick Etuk, MSP - Homily Friday, March 8, 2019
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking every yoke;
Sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own. Is. 58:6ff
🗣Our fast must go beyond merely starving our bodies of food and drink. It must aim at renouncing evil conduct in our dealings with one another. It is purifying our hearts of earthbound passions and desires that often gets in the way of doing God's will. It is not living for ourselves anymore but for Christ. As Paul said, 'It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me.' It is not gratifying our sensual desires anymore but being eager to do the will of the Father, making it our daily food. The goal of my fast should be to have in me the mind of Christ. To be meek and humble, eager to forgive and reconcile because I have renounced malice and vengefulness. To be fair in my dealings with everyone because I have renounced greed and arogance. To come to the aid of those in need and never be indifferent to the plight of the lowly and afflicted, because I am no longer full of my self.
🙇♀Father, I can't do this on my own. The spirit is willing but the flesh is often weak. I have a flesh that has a mind and will of its own. But nothing is impossible for you Lord. Make me willing and able to fast in a way that pleases you. Not my will but your will Father. Amen.
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking every yoke;
Sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own. Is. 58:6ff
🗣Our fast must go beyond merely starving our bodies of food and drink. It must aim at renouncing evil conduct in our dealings with one another. It is purifying our hearts of earthbound passions and desires that often gets in the way of doing God's will. It is not living for ourselves anymore but for Christ. As Paul said, 'It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me.' It is not gratifying our sensual desires anymore but being eager to do the will of the Father, making it our daily food. The goal of my fast should be to have in me the mind of Christ. To be meek and humble, eager to forgive and reconcile because I have renounced malice and vengefulness. To be fair in my dealings with everyone because I have renounced greed and arogance. To come to the aid of those in need and never be indifferent to the plight of the lowly and afflicted, because I am no longer full of my self.
🙇♀Father, I can't do this on my own. The spirit is willing but the flesh is often weak. I have a flesh that has a mind and will of its own. But nothing is impossible for you Lord. Make me willing and able to fast in a way that pleases you. Not my will but your will Father. Amen.
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